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Foreword

The browser is, hands down, the most popular and ubiquitous deployment platform available to us today: virtually every computer, smartphone, tablet, and just about every other form factor imaginable can now execute JavaScript, render a web page, and of course, talk HTTP. This, on its own, is a remarkable achievement, especially when you realize that it only took us a little over a decade to get to this stage. However, this is also just the beginning. The browser of yesterday looks nothing like what we now have access to thanks to all of the innovations of HTML5.

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